Comments on: Baby Boomers Traveling: Europe on the Cheap: NOT Easy!

By: kay earls

kay earls — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:52:57 +0000

Finally catching up on your blogs. Enjoying it very much. Had no idea things were so expensive. Happy you are enjoying yourself.

By: Millie Paul

Millie Paul — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:35:03 +0000

Your blog about the cost of hotels is just what I was looking for! Thanks for all the first-hand information with details.

By: doris

doris — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:24:24 +0000

Hi Grahame, we’ll be in Malaga on the weekend and Barcelona next week for four days (at least). We’re skipping Madrid and Granada as it is too cold there (they got a big dumping of snow in Granada yesterday. If I wanted snow, I’d be traveling in Canada). Would appreciate any suggestions you may have. Doris

By: Grahame

Grahame — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:49:14 +0000

Hi Doris and Jacob:
Glad you are enjoying Spain. Hope you get to places like Ronda in Andalucia.Hemingway and Orson Wells hung out there and often went to the great bullring of course.Let me know your other destinations in Spain..may I can add some suggestions.
Grahame

By: doris

doris — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:53:59 +0000

I know, I know: Poor little us enjoying Europe! Even if it is so expensive. Phil, I posted photos of Sevilla, Spain on my Facebook page with you in mind as I think you will love the architecture.

Gabriele, you are right that a bus strike in Tenerife would have had a huge impact on our vacation. We’ll save that area for the ‘European Tour’ of my book once it is published. Maybe I’ll have an expense account.

We traveled for 3 weeks in France in 2005 and found it expensive then. We then skipped Europe during our round the world trip precisely because it is so expensive. We had hoped that traveling in winter would make it more affordable — which it is — but not really enough. Oh well, not yet surviving on bread and water!